Parents
I enjoyed meeting with many of you this past Monday and loved to here the universal comment “Man, I’m beginning to recognize what they are playing now!” This should be the case from now on and if you hear something you know, feel free to join in with your voice or that old cornet that has been sitting in the garage forever…
Announcements
- Practice Card is due on Monday, October 19th
- Students should be practicing 30 minutes each day. Students have a distinct process to practicing each line. There are also instructions on how to use/vary that process.
- Fundraiser turn-in #2 on Monday, October 19th. Click here for instructions.
- Students need to download the play-along tracks for their book lines from either myeelibrary or from the CD that came with some of their books. The access code for the online library is found at the bottom of the title page of the book.
- Play along tracks for our daily drills can be found here. The students were given the password in class.
Trumpets – Breathing exercises, long tones, lip slurs, Lines 14, 18, 23, 25, 28
Oboes and Bassoons – Half hole exercise, 18, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, be sure to have 3 – 4 good reeds every day in class and to switch them daily
French Horns – Breathing exercises, warmup, 14, 18, 23, 25